CHINA-SOCIETY-OFFBEAT-APOCALYPSE   TO GO WITH China-society-offbeat-apocalypse,FOCUS by Tom Hancock This photo taken on December 11, 2012 shows farmer Liu Qiyuan looking out from a survival pod that he built and also dubbed 'Noah's Arc', in the village of Qiantun, Hebei province, south of Beijing. As people across the globe tremble in anticipation of next week's supposed Mayan-predicted apocalypse, one Chinese villager says he may have just what humanity needs: tsunami-proof survival pods. AFP PHOTO / Ed Jones
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